Jane Hassinger

Project Leader at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecturer IV in Women's Studies

Contact Information:
2125 Lane Hall
204 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1290
734.763.3589
202 E Washington; #401
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.761.1015 V/M
Email: jahass@umich.edu

Biography: Jane Hassinger is a Lecturer IV in Women's Studies and Project Leader at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. For ten years, she co-founded and directed the Interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Practice—offering conferences, organizational consultation, and interdisciplinary faculty and graduate student seminars on feminist scholarship and methods in the professional disciplines. She is Co-Principal Investigator for the WiCSA Project (Women in Cooperatives, South Africa), which involves students in HIV/AIDS education and intercultural research teams in South Africa. She teaches courses on the gendering of groups, organizations, and workplaces; feminist practices across the professions; gender, trauma, and mental health; and participatory-action research and fieldwork in international contexts. She has taught widely in Social Work, Business, and Psychology. Jane is a Clinical Social Worker and Psychoanalyst, and maintains an active psychotherapy practice. Her work emphasizes gender and violence, trauma, mental health, and the gendering of organizational life and professional practice.